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Charles Babbage
best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer -
Herman Hollerith
Hollerith seized on the idea of punch cards designing a machine that used the location of holes on each card to tally not only overall numbers but also individual characteristics and even cross-tabulations -
1st Generation computer
first general purpose computer -
2nd generation computer
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Jack Kilby
an American electrical engineer who took part in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments in 1958. -
Alair Computer
First personal computer -
Bill Gates
Cofounder and chairman, Microsoft Corporation -
Steve Jobs
inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc -
Apple II
Fetured a color monitor and it had sound -
Osborne Computer
First portable computer
